On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:44:32AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Martin Furter] > > --- Makefile.in (revision 883010) > > +++ Makefile.in (working copy) > > @@ -369,8 +369,8 @@ > > rm -f $(CLEAN_FILES) > > find $(CTYPES_PYTHON_SRC_DIR) $(SWIG_PY_SRC_DIR) $(SWIG_PY_DIR) \ > > $(abs_srcdir)/build -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} ';' > > - find $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 3 \ > > - -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} ';' > > + rm -f $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests/*/*.pyc > > + rm -f $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests/*/*/*.pyc > > That may be more portable, or again, maybe not. It could fail on some > Unixes due to limitations on command line length, particularly if > $(abs_srcdir) is itself a long path. Probably better: > > cd $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests; rm -f */*.pyc > cd $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests; rm -f */*/*.pyc > > Or even: > > cd $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests; echo */*.pyc | xargs rm -f > cd $(abs_srcdir)/subversion/tests; echo */*/*.pyc | xargs rm -f
Why are we trying to dynamically get the list of .pyc files in Makefile.in? Why not just pre-compute the .pyc list and pass it to rm -f during make fast-clean? Let's just put the list into build-outputs.mk. The TEST_PROGRAMS variable probably already contains the list of .py files corresponding to the .pyc files we want to remove. It could be very simple to make gen-make.py add the corresponding .pyc files to the CLEAN_FILES variable. Speaking of which, rm -f $(CLEAN_FILES) could also end up being too long on certain types of UNIX. So maybe put .pycs into a different list. Or if we can find out the minimum length supported by systems still in use today, we split up CLEAN_FILES accordingly, and run rm -f $(CLEAN_FILES1); rm -rf $(CLEAN_FILES2); ... etc. Stefan